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The cases you mentioned have clear and immediate commercial incentives that push them toward quality. Not quite so for basic research that might (optimistically
by ethanbond 3y ago
The cases you mentioned have clear and immediate commercial incentives that push them toward quality. Not quite so for basic research that might (optimistically) be decades away from commercialization and will probably be commercialized from someone very very far away in the value chain from the original researcher.
FWIW I'm also really critical of peer review/journals, just don't think this is a great line of analogy.
- SQueeeeeL 3y agoI've found most people who are deeply critical of peer review as a process (and not just how shady modern journals are) have never engaged in serious scientific work. They have no idea how lost in the weeds researchers can get, and how useful having a somewhat uninformed 3rd party see if they can parse your prose is for having a work be understandable. Commercialization really only applies to a very small subset of scientific discoveries